All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.